Now you think youll shuffle off and get away after that impudence? Oh, no you dont! The stool he let fly hit the mans right shoulder on the packed muscle under the shoulder blade - like solid rock, for all the effect one saw (1030, Homer). Here explains how a ... Read More

The Odyssey and the Aeneid were composed in ancient Greek times, around 30 and 700 b.c. The most prominent, and most obvious, similarity of both the Odyssey and the Aeneid is that they are both epics. An epic is a long narrative poem in an elevated style that deals with ... Read More

Poem Analysis "Harlem Night Song" In the poem, "Harlem Night Song", by Langston Hughes, Hughes uses many poetic devices including repetition. He uses repetition when he says, " come let us roam the night..." in the beginning. Then he says the same thing at the end. The way he uses ... Read More

Poetic devices are often utilized by authors to emphasize and clarify their overall theme. One such device is alliteration, where a beginning sound of a word is employed more than once in a line. Shakespeare presents alliteration as the most important tool to understanding his moral in sonnet 71. In ... Read More

The Choices of Life The choices that we make in life are never easy, and we face many of them in our lifetime. The poem The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost is a first person narrative poem in which Frost himself can be considered the speaker. A person walking ... Read More

Alex Perez Perez 1In the twentieth century, the name Walt Whitman has been synonymous with poetry. Whitmans most celebrated work, Leaves of Grass, was the only book he ever wrote, and he took a lifetime to write it. A large assortment of poems, it is one of the most widely ... Read More

William Shakespeares Sonnet 18 is one of one hundred fifty four poems of fourteen lines written in Iambic Pentameter. These sonnets exclusively employ the rhyme scheme, which has come to be called the Shakespearean Sonnet. The sonnets are composed of an octet and sestet and typically progress through three quatrains ... Read More

Decade By Amy LowellUpon first reading Amy Lowell's poem "A Decade" appears to be a poem abouta couple who has met each other and saying how sweet they are like honey and redwine Then it says you are fresh like morning bread. Then ending with how theybecome completely nourished. After ... Read More

's diverse and self-conscious writing style contains many poetic devices which distinguish him among the great American writers. One such device common to Whitman's poetry is the use of cataloguing. Through cataloguing, Whitman is able to enter into the text multiple ideas and situations, alluding to topics which are central ... Read More

Critical Analysis of Night Clouds by Amy LowellCritical Analysis of "Night Clouds" by Amy LowellWith all the time spent looking out into the big ocean of a calming night sky, what is there to see? A big white fluff of clouds or a sparkle splattered universe. The night heavens are ... Read More

Critical Analysis of Sylvia Plaths DaddyCritical Analysis of Sylvia Plaths Daddy Sylvia Plath uses her poem, Daddy, to express intense emotions towards her fathers life and death and her disastrous relationship with her husband. The speaker in this poem is Sylvia Plath who has lost her father at age ten, ... Read More

William Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper"Not only did Wordsworth do a superior job portraying an experience when he wrote "The Solitary Reaper", but he also invites the readers broaden their own experiences by opening their eyes to parts of life that they might not have noticed, or did notice but could ... Read More

Gwen HarwoodQ2 Gwen Harwood is a technically versatile poet, deeply interested in the materials of her art in the poetic form, sounds, images, structures, voices and musical possibilities. Long After Heine and The Flight of the Bumble Bee use each of these poetic devices extensively, appealing to all of the ... Read More

The creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the mostdifficult challenges to a writer, and development to a level at which the readeridentifies with them can take a long time. However, through the masterful use ofpoetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and ... Read More

The Futility of Dying for a State through Poetic Devices"Dulce et Decorum Est" and "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" (1920) uses vivid imagery primarily to remove any romantic or patriotic idea that it is sweet to die for one's country. Randall Jarrell's "The ... Read More

Sounds of ChangeIn The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Coleridge brings us into a world of magical fantasy. Using many poetic devices, he takes us along the voyage to the ends of the earth and back, following a magical old mariner. Beginning at the end, the story of the seamans ... Read More

The Futility of Dying for a State through Poetic Devices"Dulce et Decorum Est" and "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" (1920) uses vivid imagery primarily to remove any romantic or patriotic idea that it is sweet to die for one's country. Randall Jarrell's "The ... Read More

Great poetry is great not because of what it says but because of how it is phrased. Few poems say anything that is very profound instead, the best of them use language in novel, memorable, and effective ways. Certainly this is true of Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous sonnet "England in ... Read More

Langston Hughes Poetic DevicesLangston Hughes uses many strong literary devices in his poems. In Hughes poem, Democracy, he clearly states the theme of the poem. In Democracy, Hughes is asking for his rights and freedom as an American citizen. Hughes wishes to be treated equal in his country, no matter ... Read More

For a long time racism has been a big issue in American culture, and many poets used this issue as a theme for their poems. A very good example of this would be the poems called Blink Your Eyes, by Sekou Sundiata and History Lesson, by Natasha Trethewey, because they ... Read More

The ancient Greeks invented myths to explain their origin, surroundings, and the unknown. Facing to the unknown world, they filled with panic, curiosity, and the ambition of conquering. Many of the myths deal with fantastic or magical events. These stories are amazing and entertaining and the details used often explain ... Read More

How does Harwood make use of poetic devices to represent the journey of an individual?The poem At Mornington by Gwen Harwood illustrates the idea of life being finite, which makes it precious and sacred. The central concept of reflecting on the change of life and the acceptance of death through ... Read More

The Windhover summaryIn Gerard Manley Hopkins piece, The Windhover, he uses various poetic devices to showcase his talent in describing the view of a falcon in flight. He uses devices such as rhyme, image, alliteration, and allusion. By using these specific devices, he achieves his goal of portraying the flight ... Read More

The poem Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost, and its talking about the world ending in either Fire or Ice. The speaker says, that some would prefer the world to end in fire, and others in ice. The speaker concludes that the world must end in fire, after their personal ... Read More

Caged Bird By Maya Angelou BreakdownThe author, Maya Angelou, uses multiple poetic devices to get her message across to the reader she uses repetition, personification, rhyme, alliteration, and she even changes the style of poem in the middle of the poem. In the poem, Maya describes the differences between a ... Read More